Whooohoo!!!! Is this not the greatest thing ever ( Read more... )

It's COLD here in the Chicago area!!!! Damn, it's cold!!!! And we've had three huge snows - one in late November, one in mid-December, some small ones, and then the huge one last week. The weather man just said on TV that we have had 42" so far - wow. I was going to guess 3 feet, but was afraid I was overestimating. Last week was the worst ( Read more... )

OMG - LOST!!!! *loves* And anybody who saw it knows why. Thank you, "LOST". We needed that. *sigh*

OMG - Johnny Lee Miller - best known to me for doing a fantastic job of playing Graeme Obree in "The Flying Scotsman", which co-starred a certain incredible Scottish actor named Billy Boyd, and the subject of fixation for onecheekyhobbit - is the lead in "Eli ( Read more... )

So, anyway, how dense AM I ( Read more... )

And my apologies to those whose birthdays I've missed!  I thought I better post now,  because I'll forget byy the 11th - *G*.

As I sit here, a lady of leisure typing away on my laptop, while at the same time, my utility room is being vacuumed to within an inch of its life. How is this possible, you cry? (or, more likely, mutter) My new iRobot Roomba! Wheeeee ( Read more... )

"Beowulf": If you're going to see this, see it in IMAX 3-D - it's worth it! Not a great film, but not the commercial rip-off I was afraid of. It actually follows the original story very well (even down to the torn-off arm over the doorway of Heorot), but with a sad, terrible Gollumesque Grendel, a hero who is flawed in a very understandable way ( Read more... )

I've been away from LJ for a looooong time, so I thought this would be a very fitting first post back!

Whenever I listen to the radio, it's always reminding me of people on LJ. Is it just me, or does that happen with anybody else?

For example, when I hear The Cure, or The Flaming Lips - or anything relating to them - I think of gayalithiel(ETA) Whenever I ( Read more... )

... but what I didn't know until I saw the trailer that's out now, is that ALAN RICKMAN IS PLAYING THE JUDGE ( Read more... )

Again, haven't been around; hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things again ( Read more... )